Improvement in tags



H. G. BAINBRIDGE. Tag.

No. 218,469. Patented Aug. 12, 187.9.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. O

HENRY (l. BAINBRIDGE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN TAGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 218. 169, dated August12, 1879; application filed May 31, 1579.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, HENRY O. BAINBRIDGE, 0f the city of Brooklyn, in thecounty of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Tags and Labels for Merchandise, of which thefollowin g is a description, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention has more particularly for its object the production of atag or label for clothing, cloth, and other goods or articles whichshall possess all the merits of a paper tag without its disadv'antagcs-that is to say. a tag which may be as readily printed orwritten upon as a paper tag, but which is much more durable or lessliable to tear, and carries its own means of attachment, whereby it ismade self-fastening or dispenses with all sewing and separate means ofattaching it.

The invention consists in a compound tag or label having a base of metaland a facing of paper on one or both of its sides.

It also consists in a tag or label having its face of paper, andprovided with fasteningprongs, which form an integral portion of it andmake the tag self-fastenin g.

1n the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofa compound tag or label constructed in accordance with my invention;Fig. 2, a longitudinal transverse section of the same; Fig. 3, aperspective view showing the tag or label as applied to a piece of clothor other material, after its prongs have been projected through thelatter, but before closing them by bending; and Fig. 4, a perspectiveview showing the tag or label as having its prongs closed on thematerial to which it is attached.

A indicates the base of the tag or label, composed of tin or othermetal, but preferably of tin, and cut or stamped out from a tinned sheetwith little or no waste, by reason of the parallelogrammic form of thetag and the construction of its fastening-prongs b b, by simply cuttingnotches c c, as shown in Fig. 1.

B indicates the paper facing, here shown as applied to only one of thesides of the metal base A, either before or after the latter has beencut from the sheet, but preferably before. Said paper facing is or maybe applied and secured to the metal base A in any suitable manner; butthe method which I have preferred to adopt is to first wash a tin platewith a solution of muriatic acid, composed of onehalfwater, orthereabout, and one-halfmuriatic acid of ordinary commercial strength,and, after the tin plate is dry, to paste the paper on its face or faceswith ordinary flour paste or any other suitable adhesive material, butpreferably with paste made of rice-flour. The tags are then cut out fromthe paper-faced metal plate, and the prongs b b afterward bent, as shownin Fig. 3, to project them through the article or material to be tagged,and said prongs subsequently further bent or turned in directionsparallel with the face of the tag, or thereabout, to close them for thepurpose of fastening the tag upon the article or material to which it isapplied, substantially as shown in Fig. 4.

1 claim- A tag or label consisting of a sheet of metal having a facingof paper cemented over and covering the entire face or faces of thesame, the said paper-faced metal sheet having projecting fasteningprongsintegral with the metal, substantially as shown and described.

HENRY G. BAINBRIDGE.

Witnesses:

'l. J. KEANE, E. P. JEssUP.

